Theron Wilber Haight 
Three Wisconsin Cushings [PDF ebook] 
A Sketch of the Lives of Howard Alonzo H. And William B. Cushing, Children of a Pioneer Family of Waukesha County

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. When this uprising was suppressed, as in less than a year it was, an exodus of the dissatisfied classes began and continued as people could get ready for their passage over the Hudson and into the wilderness of what was then the Far West, reaching by way of the Mohawk Valley even to Lake Erie itself, and up the eastern shore of Lake Ontario to the St. Lawrence. Washington Irving was evidently familiar with the appear ance of such migrations from early boyhood, and gives a lively picture in his K nickerbocker’s H ist ory of N ew York (though somewhat distorted for purposes of burlesque entertainment), of the way in which the Yankees moved westward, ac companied by their families, and with all their belongings packed away in covered wagons drawn by jaded horses or toiling oxen.